Muslim Brotherhood Plans Protests

7/5/2013 9:41AM

Egypt's army declared a state of emergency in Suez and southern Sinai ahead of protests from the Muslim Brotherhood against the military's overthrow of President Mohammed Morsi and the arrests of its leaders. Matt Bradley reports. Photo: AP.

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ay ... ay ay ay ay ay ay ... Egypt's fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood has launched a counter protests today following the ouster of Mohammad Morsi its man who had been elected president ... for an update on what's happening in Egypt after Wednesday's military two were joined by one of the Journal's me reporters in Cairo Matt Bradley mecca morning ... so tell us what you seen on the streets ... will it trade today we're seeing hundred about ... a hundred supporters for ... former President Ahmed more she coming out and protest given that out there in the military role in that than the decision ... so ... were were were added in the first report from the income is to ... support Mathat more she I and we're ... hoping she added ... it was a computer hoping that that that was put into some sort of broader violence between Islam is the man secularist here but so far so far no no significant violence ... we continue to give it a violent protests but there was some violent and by night and some of ... the recent attack on the tube and a budget in the military security forces there and they've declared a state of emergency ... I'm actually from the price of Brent crude ... searching by about a dollar ... but ... that that that that that ... amount not quite clear whether this is connected to take over or is this just the ... sort of background a violent been happening for the last two years ... ok let let's talk a little bit about ... the military takeover and and where we go from here to see the new president ... we've talked about in the military has talked about ... new elections ... now I'm curious the Muslim Brotherhood is still the best organized political party ... in Egypt ... if they have new elections would be just with them again ... the ... question ... of course the opposition to know that it the ended ... the agreement went into an election that they would lose it if you take them and very clear by the tens of millions of people around the street ... but at the same time the brother of it that that they have won every single action a lot to app is very true ... every parliamentary election in the present election and several referendum and to ... all the voters when ... not all of them excuse me but a majority went and voted for petition candidate but the north of the Muslim Brotherhood and their their partners in the fall of the movement ... ball back ... so it's kind of hard right now for the secularist argued that the end of the day is ... that they're not really going to win some sort of election ... coming up parliamentary elections or a referendum ... simply because of the numbers of people mistreat them up with the brother was dead ... they stated that challenging not only legitimate chief Mohammad Morsi of critics but challenging the legitimacy of the democratic process here because now we're setting a precedent that ... any elected official or any elected position can be subject to the whims of the St ... ok Matt before you go we only have about thirty seconds but there's a very interesting backstory here ... we tend to be since the two ... gas lines and power that power supplies though sin bin indeed disrupted ... ahead of ... ahead of the ... the coup but that they come back very significantly or or much better been very very quickly what what's that telling you ... Brookfield is one of the Brotherhood leaders yesterday was talking to to to to to to to the budget target ... for the switch ... and turn the cap back on ... further into the petrol for current ... and ... it's very suspicious half of the blowtorch of course that because of all of a ... turmoil because of the protests that people are driving around and using their cards which is ... of very legitimate ... a very legitimate response ... but the same time it is very coincidental that the rolling blackouts that were frustrating many Egyptian ... rising food prices ... a lot of these things seem to stop ... right when the protesters took to the street on Sunday ... that he was a will that that someone really had to turn the ... switch ... and made everything work again with a range of issues that mean ... the very dubious kind of that ... shift ... yet so maybe that that there were there were some folks that were interested in the ouster of Morsi and ... I were working behind the scenes to ... to to foment some protest as it were ... news that about me I did